Mosé Higuera (20 December 1842 – 25 September 1915) was a Colombian

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of the

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. He served as an auxiliary bishop of two

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s, first for the Archdiocese of Bogotá from 1876 to 1884, and next for the

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from 1884 until his death.

Biography

Higuera was born on 20 December 1842 in

Tibasosa Tibasosa () is a municipality in the Sugamuxi Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Tibasosa borders Duitama and Nobsa in the north, Nobsa and Sogamoso in the east, Firavitoba in the south and Paipa in the west.

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(today located in Boyacá Department, Colombia). He was

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. On 7 April 1876, he was appointed Titular Bishop of Maximianopolis in Arabia and Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Santafé en Nueva Granada (today the Archdiocese of Bogotá). His episcopal consecration was held on 19 May 1878 in the Primatial Cathedral in Bogotá, with Archbishop

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serving as

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, and Auxiliary Bishop Bonifacio Antonio Toscano serving as co-consecrator. On 4 March 1884, Higuera was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Medellín by

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. He served in that capacity until 25 September 1915, when he died in Medellín at the age of 72. During his time as bishop, Higuera was the co-consecrator of a number of bishops. They are listed as follows, with the year of consecration parenthesized: Severo Garcia (1882), Juan Nepomuceno Rueda Rueda (1882),

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(1885), José Benigo Perilla y Martínez (1887), Joaquín Pardo y Vergara (1892), Eduardo Maldonado Calvo (1905), Atanasio María Vicente Soler y Royo, OFMCap (1907), Manuel Antonio Arboleda y Scarpetta, CM (1907), and Francisco Cristóbal Toro (1911).

Episcopal lineage

Higuera's episcopal lineage is as follows: * Cardinal Scipione Rebiba * Cardinal

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(1566) * Cardinal

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, OP (1586) * Archbishop

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(1621) * Cardinal Luigi Caetani (1622) * Cardinal Ulderico Carpegna (1630) * Cardinal

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(1666) *

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(1675) *

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(1724) * Archbishop Enrico Enríquez (1743) * Bishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz (1749) * Cardinal Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana (1765) * Bishop Atanasio Puyal y Poveda (1790) * Bishop Andrés Esteban y Gómez (1815) * Bishop Salvador Jiménez y Padilla (1816) * Bishop Jose Antonio Chaves, OFM (1834) * Bishop Bernabé Rojas, OP (1855) * Bishop Domingo Antonio Riaño Martínez (1855) * Archbishop

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(1855) * Archbishop

(1860) * Bishop Mosé Higuera (1878)

References

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